List of counties in New Hampshire

New Hampshire counties

This is a list of counties in New Hampshire. There are currently 10 counties in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Five of the counties were created in 1769, when New Hampshire was still an English colony and not a state, during the first subdivision of the state into counties. The last counties created were Belknap County and Carroll County, in 1840. The majority of New Hampshire's counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic locations and features. Only one county's name originates in a Native American language; Coos County, named for a Native American word meaning crooked and referring to a bend in the Connecticut River. The counties tend to be smaller in land area towards the southern end of the state, where New Hampshire population is concentrated, and larger in land area in the less populous north.^[1][2]

The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States. The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, while Belknap County, New Hampshire is 001, Addison County, Vermont and Alachua County, Florida are also 001. To uniquely identify Belknap County, New Hampshire, one must use the state code of 33 plus the county code of 001; therefore, the unique nationwide identifier for Belknap County, New Hampshire is 33001. The links in the column FIPS County Code are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county.^[3]

List

County	FIPS Code [3]	County Seat [4]	Created [4]	Formed from [5]	Etymology [2]	Population [4][6]	Area [4][6]	Map
Belknap County	001	Laconia	1840	Parts of Merrimack County and Strafford County.	Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798), early New Hampshire historian.	&1000000000006008800000060,088	&10000000000000401000000401 sq mi (&100000000000010390000001,039 km2)
Carroll County	003	Ossipee	1840	Part of Strafford County.	Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737 - 1832), the last surviving signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.	&1000000000004781800000047,818	&10000000000000934000000934 sq mi (&100000000000024190000002,419 km2)
Cheshire County	005	Keene	1769	One of five original counties.	English county of Cheshire.	&1000000000007711700000077,117	&10000000000000708000000708 sq mi (&100000000000018340000001,834 km2)
Coos County	007	Lancaster	1803	Part of Grafton County.	A Native American word meaning crooked, in reference to a bend in the Connecticut River.	&1000000000003305500000033,055	&100000000000018010000001,801 sq mi (&100000000000046650000004,665 km2)
Grafton County	009	Haverhill	1769	One of five original counties.	Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), a Prime Minister of Great Britain (1768-1770).	&1000000000008911800000089,118	&100000000000017140000001,714 sq mi (&100000000000044390000004,439 km2)
Hillsborough County	011	Manchester and Nashua	1769	One of five original counties.	Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718-1793), known in America as the Earl of Hillsborough, who served as the first Secretary of State for the Colonies.	&10000000000400721000000400,721	&10000000000000876000000876 sq mi (&100000000000022690000002,269 km2)
Merrimack County	013	Concord	1823	Parts of Hillsborough County and Rockingham County.	The Merrimack River.	&10000000000146445000000146,445	&10000000000000934000000934 sq mi (&100000000000024190000002,419 km2)
Rockingham County	015	Brentwood	1769	One of five original counties.	Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782), a two-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (1765-1766, 1782).	&10000000000295223000000295,223	&10000000000000695000000695 sq mi (&100000000000018000000001,800 km2)
Strafford County	017	Dover	1769	One of five original counties.	William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1626-1695), an English noble who owned colonial lands.	&10000000000123143000000123,143	&10000000000000369000000369 sq mi (&10000000000000956000000956 km2)
Sullivan County	019	Newport	1827	Part of Cheshire County.	John Sullivan (1740-1795), the third and fifth governor of New Hampshire (1786-1788, 1789-1790).	&1000000000004374200000043,742	&10000000000000537000000537 sq mi (&100000000000013910000001,391 km2)

References

1. ^ Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn (1916). History of New Hampshire. The American Historical Society. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "New Hampshire Counties". New Hampshire Almanac. http://www.nh.gov/nhinfo/ffcounties.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". US Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/nh.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "NACo - Find a county". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on 2007-07-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20070711120228/http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=NH. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
5. ^ "New Hampshire Counties". The NHGenWeb Project. Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070713172930/http://www.usroots.com/~usgwnhus/counties.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "New Hampshire QuickFacts". U.S. Census Bureau. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/new_hampshire_map.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24.  (2000 Census)